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| Date: | 22nd November 1929 |
| Colliery: | Ouston, E Pit |
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| Cause: | Crushed |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Solomon Wilde, 45, erector, was crushed to death by a boiler he was helping to seat in the boiler house at Ouston E Pit on 22 November.
Five boilers, each weighing 4½ tons, had been placed in position and as the lifting derrick was being moved there was loud bang. Wilde was found trapped by the boiler against the girder he had been sitting on; it took 2½ hours to recover his body.
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  | Wilde, Solomon, aged 45, Erector, he was crushed to death by a boiler he was helping to seat in the boiler house |
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Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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